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Hang up your wine glasses, plonk on your trainers and take part in this year's Marathon du Medoc.

The route winds through the French countryside and attracts 55,000 spectators -albeit many of them drinking.

This year's theme is exotic places and islands for those who want to dress up for the race that starts in Pauillac at 09.30 local time on September 6th.

For those that don't want to break into a sweat there are plenty of opportunities to become a guest of some of the area's bars and restaurants.

Chateau Peyrabon holds a thousand pasta dinner, while festivities run into the night on Gironde quays

Sunday is set aside for recuperation - a ten-km walk through the Medoc Valley.

The best advice is to get to Bordeaux quick, as the 2007 entrant on the World Heritage List is ''at risk'' of being worn away by visitors, according to the Inquirer.

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